mentions the various ethnic groups such as Georgians, Tatars, Kabardinians, Kalmyk, Bashkir, etc. voluntarily join the Cossack villages and taking part in the armed forces Cossack. Since the XIX century until the October Revolution, the Cossacks have provided strong support to the Government of the King, playing the role of defenders of Russian statehood. After the revolution, the Cossack troops were disbanded acceded to the White movement. Phenomenal cultural and ethnographic diversity, like that of a network of settlements in the Cossack Russian borders, reinforced in accordance with the centuries long relations of neighboring nations, peace coexistence of different social and cultural structures, Orthodox inter-ethnic marriages, the diversity of traditions and customs, does not exist anywhere else in the world. The revival of the Cossack movement in Russia began in the late eighties. Deprived of the civil rights status of the Cossacks lasted until the Presidential Decree on the Restoration of the Cossacks June 15th, 1992.
Ordinance re-installed and restored self-government Cossack Cossacks in military service. At the fusion of individual cultural and historical forces into a single national political unit, on the edge of the Cossack movement Russian XXI centuries together all unions and associations that have formed an organization to behalf of the Union of Cossacks. To restore historical justice to the Cossacks, regional and local authorities are obliged to take all necessary measures regarding the revival of the Cossack movement, to take all necessary legislation and ensure its implementation. Citizens who consider themselves descendants of the Cossacks of the Don and express a desire to participate in the reconstruction and development of methods of Cossack administration, culture, way of life as well how to work in state and local institutions, empowered to join in farm and community, district and create military units found Cossack civil unions, which pursue goals revival Cossack culture, their traditions, mercy mercy. In addition, the law guarantees to those citizens who are not direct descendants of the Cossacks of the Don right to join and become members of communities of Cossack. Close ties that existed historically between the motion of a Cossack and Russian Orthodox Church, have found their expression even at the present time. From year 2006 to the Cossacks in the Stavropol Cossacks of the urban community Terek Cossack Host serve in all Orthodox districts of Stavropol. Press Center parishes of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz, announced that in response to the request of the priests of churches, to large banquets Orthodox Cossacks guarded by St. Andrew's Cathedral, Holy Cross The Church and the Church of St. Mary's Dream. Each of the Cossacks could also attend the festive Divine Liturgy, which is served in the church. According to Ataman of Stavropol Cossack urban society Sergei Ponomarenko, the special mission of churches allow Cossacks to feel 'a connection with the divine world. "

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